This Week In Weed – 11 November 2018

London-based Dragonfly Biosciences Ltd has announced that it has secured a licence to create CBD oil, and will begin the production and distribution of medical cannabis early in 2019, when it will also begin to approach Clinical Commissioning Groups. The firm produces the drug at huge open-air farms in Bulgaria.

The UK is already Dragonfly’s biggest market for cannabidiol food supplements. The company’s grower in Bulgaria harvests their 420-hectare crop every September, producing around 232,000kg of plants – or six million units a year. It then ships to its medicinal facility in Malta to produce CBD products.

They pleaded guilty to production of a controlled drug of Class B. Despite recognising that they had “significant mental health problems”, judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said she was persuaded to impose a community order on the two defendants. Both were both sentenced to a 12-month community order and to undertake a 15-day rehabilitation activity requirement.

They were also made subject to an electronically-monitored curfew for six weeks and ordered to pay £300 in court costs between them. The court ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the plants and relevant equipment.

Const. Vittorio Dominelli took three hazelnut chocolate bars infused with cannabis oil from the raid. He and another officer later ate one chocolate bar and became intoxicated in about 20 minutes… and eventually radioed for help!